Has anyone here read Michael P. Speidel's Ancient Germanic Warriors?

[Quilts]

Don't want to state the obvious but the only way to simulate this fast moving infantry with cavalry tactic in the RTW engine is 2 seperate units. A cavalry unit and an infantry (skirmisher?) unit that is deployed infront/behind it and engages the enemy at about the same time.

As a player you can do this. If the infantry hit first then they soak up the enemy charge, making your own cavalry's charge more effective. If your cavalry hit first then the infantry 'infiltrate' the melee, adding extra attacks etc.

Now, getting the AI to simulate this is another thing.....

Cheers,

Quilts

[SaFe]

Don't want to state the obvious but the only way to simulate this fast moving infantry with cavalry tactic in the RTW engine is 2 seperate units. A cavalry unit and an infantry (skirmisher?) unit that is deployed infront/behind it and engages the enemy at about the same time.

As a player you can do this. If the infantry hit first then they soak up the enemy charge, making your own cavalry's charge more effective. If your cavalry hit first then the infantry 'infiltrate' the melee, adding extra attacks etc.

Now, getting the AI to simulate this is another thing.....

Cheers,

Quilts

Your're correct here, but the AI would never field up such kind of troops in this way.
Sadly:-(

[the_handsome_viking]

So I take it nobody has read the book?